Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-11-14
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run OF business in his shop.
The Social Union of the NJ. E
church will meet with Mrs. Arthur
Ordway, Thursday afternoon, Nov.
IL.
The Craftsbury cornet band will
give a promenade concert at Hotel
Hall, Irasburgh, Friday eve, Nov.
18th.
The W. c. L. meet at Mrs. Dan'l
SINNERS Friday afternoon, Nov. IS.
Important business demands a full
attendance.
Joseph Bartlett has been putting
in the foundation for a large barn,
and Lewis Simpson has built a new
horse barn.
Rev. W. n. Roberts wife arrived
home last Monday The NJ. E. par
sOnage and church have both been
thoroughly repaired this season.
The village schools close next
Friday with an entertainment by the
scholars assisted by the Glover brass
band in the evening. The band will
give promenade concert after the
exercises of the evening.
Some sneak, who is not worthy the
name of man, stole some beef Friday
night from the shed room of a sick
family. If he had been a man he
would have stole it from a we'll per-
son. People should look well to
their doors.
Elmer Leonard has contracted to
furnish the creamery Co. at the
Landing one hundred cords of slab
wood. Leonard has bought all the
wood made at J. G. Bartlett's mill
this winter, and has the job of stick
ing up the lumber for Bartlett &
button.
The meeting held by the G.. A.
r. Post Tuesday afternoon when the
wives, sons and daughters of the
veterans were invited in, passed off
very pleasantly. Speeches were made
by comrades Foster, Skinner, Austin
and others. Songs were sung and
a general good time participated in
by all.
Mr.. p. Guild was taken suddenly
sick Wednesday afternoon caused by
rheumatism of the heart. DIR. Wright
was called from Newport and after
a few hours he was pronounced more
| comfortable. At this writing he is
able to walk out. Mr.. Guild has
been a sufferer from this trouble for
! the past three years.
ISI-O wilmington
S. r. Jenkins has returned from
his western trip.
John Maxwell is putting a frame
in his shop for shoeing oxen.
Mrs. Matilda Rollins of Bath, n.
H., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ruth
Robinson.
Mr.. Hector Lapierre is going to
Norton to keep boarding house the
coming winter.
The fall term of school ended Fri
day, the 18th, with an exhibition in
the evening.
One of the men at Gallup's mill
had his hand badly cut on the planer
last Thursday.
Edgar Wells has moved to his farm
in East Bloomington. Wallace Han
son carries on the farm another year
Flora /. Whites funeral sermon
will be preached at Geo. d. Whites.
Nov. 20.
S. S. Bartlett has taken a job of
Bartlett & White at South Barton to
saw one Thousand cords of four foot
wood twice in two. Mr.. Bartlett
| also intends to saw some five hun
dred cords of block wood for himself
in this town and in Coventry.
Darwin A. Currier, whose sickness
was mentioned some time since, died
at the home of his son, Elmer Curri-
err, Tuesday, Oct. "a, of congestion
of the stomach. Mr.. Currier went to
Nebraska some two years since. His
first summer was spent in Cedar Rap
| ids. He had taken a claim in Gar
| field county, and having arranged
to return to Vermont for medical
treatment, stopped at his sons, and
was suddenly taken sick, and there
remained during his ten weeks i'll
ness. He united with the NJ. E.
church in this place over thirty years
ago. A promise of eternal life cheer
ed his last hours.
East ISI-ONvnin=ton
Edgar Wells has moved back on to
his farm.
CYRUS Skinner has taken a big lum-
boring job in Groton. He cuts and
hauls all the lumber on 200 acres.
He Is building a shanty in the woods
to board his lumbermen. Ira Bick-
ford and his wife have hired out to
Cyrus Skinner for the winter. Mr.
Bickford drives a team and his wife
does the cooking for the lumbermen.
They 90 to Groton this week.
Evansville
Jennie Foster is failing fast, and
can not survive much longer.
Henry Durham and wife are in
Canada visiting.-Mrs. Fay Is home